Today’s Game:Penn (6-21 / 5-8) vs. Princeton (19-8 / 10-3) Location: Jadwin Gym - Princeton, NJ Time: 8:00 pm ET Radio: 103.3 fm WPRB TV: N/A Internet: goprincetontigers.com Series History: Penn leads 122-99. Last meeting:Princeton 58 Penn 51 - 2/16/10.
Penn
Princeton
3-10
Home Record
9-3
3-11
Away Record
10-5
0-0
Neutral Record
0-0
304
RPI
126
315
Sagarin
137
304
Pomeroy
116
62.8
Points / Game
59.7
72.7
Points Allowed / Game
52.2
.414
FG%
.438
.747
FT FG%
.724
.316
3PT FG%
.365
30.6
Rebounds / Game
30.3
9.4
Off. Rebounds / Game
8.7
-2.1
Rebounding Margin
+1.3
13.6
Assists / Game
11.8
15.0
Turnovers / Game
13.1
1.9
Blocks / Game
3.1
Rosen: 17.7
Points
Davis: 12.4
Eggleston: 6.4
Rebounds
Mavraides: 4.4
Rosen: 4.4
Assists
Schroeder: 3.1
Belcore: 1.2
Steals
Schroeder: 1.7
Eggleston: 0.7
Blocks
Maddox: 0.8
Howlett: .559
FG% (Min: 10 FGM)
Finley: .614
Rosen: .862
FT% (Min: 10 FTM)
Saunders: .933
Rosen: .429
3PT FG% (Min: 10 3PTM)
Saunders: .462
The Princeton class of 2010, pictured as incoming freshmen.
Wednesday, March 10th
(9) South Florida / (16) DePaul winner vs. (8) Georgetown - 12:00 pm ET - ESPN Big East Tournament
Thursday, March 11th
(10) Indiana vs. (7) Northwestern - 5:00 pm ET - ESPN2 Big 10 Tournament
(6) Oregon State vs. (3) Washington - 9:00 pm ET - FSN Pac-10 Tournament
Friday, March 12th
(6) Charlotte / (11) UMass winner vs. (3) Richmond - 9:00 pm ET Atlantic 10 Tournament
Denver (19-13) fell short of North Texas in the Sun Belt semis, 63-56. The Pioneers were within one with under seven minutes to go, before Josh White scored five straight for the Mean Green.
Kareem Maddox represents Princeton in this week’s Ivy Weekly Men’s Basketball Report.
Behind 22 points and seven boards from Mason Rocca, Armani Jeans nipped Canadian Solar Bologna, 73-71.
John Shurna from Northwestern earned consensus second-team All-Big Ten status. Fellow Wildcat Drew Crawford was the media’s choice for Big Ten Freshman of the Year.
Oregon State’s Seth Tarver was named Pac-10 Defensive Player of the Year.
Mercer is the 11 seed in the Division II Men’s Basketball National Tournament. They’ll open round robin play versus Kishwaukee on Tuesday at 7:30 pm ET.
Here’s your lineup for the week ahead. I’ll update this schedule daily.
Monay, March 8th
(6) Denver vs. (2) North Texas - 9:30 pm ET - ESPN360 Sun Belt Tournament
Tuesday, March 9th
Penn vs. Princeton - 8:00 pm ET
Wednesday, March 10th
(9) South Florida / (16) DePaul winner vs. (8) Georgetown - 12:00 pm ET - ESPN Big East Tournament
Thursday, March 11th
(10) Indiana vs. (7) Northwestern - 5:00 pm ET - ESPN2 Big 10 Tournament
(6) Oregon State vs. (3) Washington - 9:00 pm ET - FSN Pac-10 Tournament
Friday, March 12th
(6) Charlotte / (11) UMass winner vs. (3) Richmond - 9:00 pm ET Atlantic 10 Tournament
Denver (19-12) began the second half on a 26-7 run, surprising #3 seed Middle Tennessee 73-58 to advance to the Sun Belt Tournament semis. The Pioneers shot 12-17 from the floor in the final 20 minutes.
A supplemental piece in the Crimson looks at the struggles of Princeton’s and Harvard’s leading scorers on Saturday.
Richmond’s Kevin Anderson was named Atlantic 10 Player of the Year.
The New York Times’ blog The Quad compliments yesterday’s article on Chris Mooney with a post about what Mooney learned playing pickup ball on his recruiting visit to Princeton.
Georgetown’s Greg Monroe was named All-Big East First Team. Austin Freeman made All-Big East Second Team.
Princeton recruit T.J. Bray is profiled by the Wisconsin Sports Network. Here’s more detail on the most recent game for Bray, who had 13 of his 26 points in the third quarter of Catholic Memorial’s win over East Troy.
As Princeton lined up for the national anthem on Saturday night, there was someone new on the sidelines. Someone noticeably smaller than the rest of the Tiger roster wearing orange and black.
You might have missed him in the long shadow of 6′10″ Will Barrett as the Princeton ROTC presented the colors, but 10 year old Christian Regulski of Robbinsville, NJ shouldn’t go overlooked.
Christian was paired with the Princeton men’s basketball team by the Friends of Jaclyn Foundation, an organization that matches a child who has a pediatric brain tumor with a nearby sports team.
The Tigers “adopted” Christian for the game. He was on the bench as Princeton warmed up the game and he joined the team for handshakes with Harvard after the final buzzer.
Coach Johnson spent a quiet moment with Christian on the Jadwin floor one-on-one before heading to the locker room.
“Our team’s connection with Friends of Jaclyn stemmed from our players wanting to connect with people in our community beyond the basketball court,” Johnson said. “We couldn’t have guessed that Christian and his family would touch us so much. He’s a really good kid, a funny kid and he’s got a ton of courage.”
The five leading scorers in the Ivy League this season are all guards - Penn’s Zack Rosen, Cornell’s Ryan Wittman, Yale’s Alex Zampier, Harvard’s Jeremy Lin and Columbia’s Noruwa Agho.
Coming off the bench for Princeton, the longer and bouncier 6′8″ Kareem Maddox has drawn each as his primary defensive assignment. While Maddox has not guarded each player for the entire game and will be the first to tell anyone who asks with agonizing modesty that it is team defense, not his individual play that is responsible for holding these players in check, the two game splits for all five compared to their season averages is telling.
The summer before last I spent a fair amount of time scanning classic trading cards of Princeton greats who played in the ABA and/or NBA including Brian Taylor, Geoff Petrie and Armond Hill.
Last night a new card was introduced, handed out to fans entering Jadwin Gym as part of the evening’s festivities surrounding Taylor. Images of both sides have been added to this series and can be seen above.
Photos from the stellar postgame reception honoring Taylor will be up later today.
Georgetown (20-9) got 24 points from Austin Freeman and finished Big East play with an impressive 74-47 win over Cincinnati. HoyaHoops has postgame audio. The Hoyas’ first conference tournament game will be Wednesday afternoon at 12:00 pm ET versus either South Florida or DePaul.
Indiana scored the first seven points of overtime and defeated Northwestern (19-12), 88-80. John Shurna scored 31 in the loss as the Wildcats struggle to find a consistent third scoring option.
Richmond (24-7) fared better in an extra frame, getting by Charlotte 89-84. Kevin Anderson hit from 25 feet out to force OT. The Spiders set a school record for regular season victories.
Richmond head coach Chris Mooney is profiled in the New York Times.
Oregon State (14-16) fell 82-70 to Washington. The two teams will meet again Thursday in the Pac-10 Tournament.
Denver (18-12) advanced to the Sun Belt Conference Tournament quarterfinals with a 71-64 win over Florida International.
Princeton recruit T.J. Bray had 26 in Catholic Memorial’s 66-42 win over East Troy.
Future Tiger Ben Hazel and Good Counsel lost to O’Connell in the WCAC quarterfinals.
Around the Ivy League: Cornell (27-4 / 13-1) completed their championship campaign with a 79-59 win at Yale (12-19 / 6-8). Columbia (11-17 / 5-9) closed the year with a 65-56 win over Brown (11-20 / 5-9). Jack Eggleston had a career-best 25 as Penn (6-21 / 5-8) denied Dartmouth (5-23 / 1-13), 78-68.
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